Profile

Analytical QA professional with strong product ownership expertise, specializing in functional analysis, requirements gathering, and stakeholder management. Certified Scrum Product Owner skilled in translating business needs into clear acceptance criteria, facilitating discovery workshops, and driving quality early in the development lifecycle. Proven track record of bridging technical teams and business stakeholders across government and commercial sectors.

Employment History

QA Developer, Vlaanderen Connect - dept. WEWIS Flemish government, Brussels

Sept 2025 — Present

Dedicated QA to the Competences team at WEWIS department


  • Estimate stories for sprint planning using scrum poker
  • Review functional analysis and add edge cases
  • Execute production releases and inform stakeholders of releases
  • Follow up with Business Managers on ongoing defects

Senior Quality Assurance, komoot, remote

May 2022 — Apr 2025

Dedicated QA to the Monetization Squad


  • Write project requirements based on a business hypotheses
  • Write Acceptance Criteria
  • Introducing new processes for earlier QA involvement during Discovery Phase
  • Introducing new process for handling of bugs found during release tests
  • Partake in design sprints and user interviews
  • Run Risk Storming workshops
  • Define Team OKR's

QA Engineer, Mobile Vikings, Hasselt

Mar 2020 — May 2022

Dedicated component tester for the backend team


  • E2E QA lead in several projects
  • Running refinement sessions with Technical Product Owners and Analysts
  • Liaising with 3rd party software providers to get requirements clear for their development team

Product Support and Testing, Publiq VZW, Brussels

Feb 2015 — Feb 2020

Technical sidekick to the Product Owner


  • Manage development sprints with external developers
  • Conduct workshops with stakeholders from Flemish cities and municipalities to form a draft road map
  • Help define priorities for the UiTPAS road map
  • Partaking in User Story Mapping sessions for UiTPAS Check-in Devices
Education

Master in Communication, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven

Sept 2003 — Sept 2008

Erasmus year: Communication audiovisual, Universidad Europea Miguel de Cervantes, Valladolid

Sept 2005 — Feb 2006

Graduate Electronics, embedded multimedia, UCLL, Leuven

Sept 2012 — Jun 2016
Courses

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Scrum Alliance

Feb 2026

ISTQB Foundation course, ISTQB

Mar 2023

Agile Requirement Management, Jidoka.be

Oct 2021

Functional Analysis, Wolters Kluwer

Jun 2019

Introduction to Python Development, Linux Academy

May 2021

SQL and relational databases fundamentals, ABIS Training

Jan 2018